When developing a new feature, what determines whether an existing component will work or not? And when a component doesn’t work, what exactly does that mean? Does the component functionally not do what it’s expected to do, like a tab system that doesn’t switch to the correct panel? Or is it too rigid to support … Read more
Living in a highly extroverted world, everyone is expected to outshine the rest to succeed and grow. Meeting people, talking, and generally being an outspoken person will be noticeable. However, we all tend to reflect on our inner worlds when we need to disconnect and be with ourselves. It helps us refocus or be safe … Read more
Living in a highly extroverted world, everyone is expected to outshine the rest to succeed and grow. Meeting people, talking, and generally being an outspoken person will be noticeable. However, we all tend to reflect on our inner worlds when we need to disconnect and be with ourselves. It helps us refocus or be safe … Read more
Auto layout is driving you bananas? You’re scared about what will happen with your design in the browser? Then our deep-dive Figma Auto Layout Masterclass with Christine Vallaure is for you. Monday, March 27, 09:00AM – 12:00PM PT / 18:00 – 21:00 CET. (Check your time zone ⏰) All proceeds from the workshop will be … Read more
This article is a sponsored by Swimm Everything surrounding software documentation is tough — from allocating time to do it to keeping it up to date. Documentation success is tricky to achieve, and often there isn’t enough time to measure impact. That’s because they don’t bring a tangible impact to the end-user experience. We are … Read more
Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. LCP measures the time it takes for the browser to load the main content in the viewport. Since recently becoming a ranking factor, this major web performance … Read more
Over the past 12 months, we continue to see new free and open-source projects shared around the developer community. In my newsletter, Web Tools Weekly, I feature more than two dozen tools every week. As I do every year, I’ve gone through the numbers and put together what were the most popular tools according to … Read more
When we think about closed captioning, we often think about noisy environments, be it busy restaurants, shopping malls, or airport lounges. There, consuming content via audio is difficult, and so captions help communicate information in an alternative, textual way. This is, of course, useful for video streaming like Netflix or Hulu, but also for games, … Read more
This article is a sponsored by UXPin Is it controversial to say deep integration of design systems, removing the need to maintain both a code and design version of each component, is the current Holy Grail of Web Design? Traditionally the “Holy Grail” was the full-height three-column layout, but that is now consigned to history. … Read more
There is a strange ritual that web developers around the world have been perpetuating from the dawn of computers to modern days. Without this ritual, the web application cannot really exist. It is not “ready to go live,” a web developer would say. This ritual is the implementation of authentication. You may have been through … Read more